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They've sworn emotionally how much the race issue means to them-how searing it was to witness bigotry against fellow Knicks (that's Bradley, of course) or, in Gore's case, to watch his father battling Jim Crow.
As his fiancee, Vera Farmiga is seen only briefly but makes a searing impression: She's fierce and legalistic, and she fixates on the bottom-line questions in a way that frees her from looking at the moral ones.
No doubt you're still reeling from my searing confessional in the April issue of Esquire , in which I, David Brock, apologized for having lighted the mighty blaze now consuming the Clinton presidency.
While this form of searing has lost the force it once had, the essence of all the new words of emphasis is physical.
In Monday's National Post of Canada, historian Michael Bliss of the University of Toronto wrote a searing condemnation of the Kosovo war, predicting among other things that the Americans would never again agree to lead future wars by committee.